Asansol Engineering College,-a self financing institute, established in 1998 under the society of
The Academy of Engineers (India). The College is approved by AICTE, New Delhi and Dept. of
Higher Education, Govt. of West Bengal, affiliated to WBUT, West Bengal and recognized by
UGC, under section 2(f) UGC Act (1956). The college started with four departments and 180
students. Now the college offers seven streams of B.Tech courses in Engineering, namely
Electronics and Communication Engineering, Applied Electronics & Instrumentation
Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering and Civil Engineering and three Master degree courses, namely M.Tech in
Electrical Engineering, M.Tech. in Electronic & Communication Engineering and Master of
Computer Application. Except those AICTE-approved courses, another two University-approved
courses namely BBA (H) and BCA(H) also running with the name of Asansol Engineering
College. The Institute was sanctioned a financial grant under TEQIP phase I to improve learning
outcomes and employability of graduates.

The Institute got "AA" award by a reputed magazine
through the survey of Engineering Colleges in East and the Northeast India. The college is
running in a wide land area, approx 17 acres with more than 3000 students, more than 200
faculties and laboratory assistant, four multistoried buildings, three multistoried building for
boys and girls hostel, more than 150 class rooms & laboratory, individual seminar room for each
department, 24 hours internet facility etc. The college aims at enhancing Post-Graduate
education and Research & Development programs with the attainment of academic autonomy
and to achieve that aim it likes to restructure its curricula to make it flexible, learner-centric and
industry-oriented. The College feels that the achievement of academic excellence is the need of
the hour and to attain that it, at first, likes to emphasize on strengthening the existing PG
programs and in the subsequent phase it likes to introduce more disciplines in PG education.
While developing the PG program, the College likes also to give due priority towards doctoral
research programs with special emphasis on collaborative research with other institutions as well
as with the industries. Besides collaborative research, the college also likes to reap the benefit of
its proximity to industries for IRG through testing and consultancy so that it can sustain the
reform and leap forward.